Example sentences of "know on " in BNC.

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31 Given this , we must recognize that knowledge of appearances is not , in itself , such a worthless thing ; what we know on the basis of sense-experience is perfectly good for many purposes .
32 Indeed their sacred works contain passages that state bluntly that God is completely beyond our understanding and completely unlike anything which we know on earth .
33 One swim I know on the Hampshire Avon near Ringwood can only be fished on a quiet day , when few other anglers are around .
34 But what am I to do when someone asks me for everything I know on Lake Malawi Cichlids ( as happens fairly often ) .
35 Tories know on which side their bread is buttered — the heterosexual side .
36 … The horoscope in the Queen prophesies disaster for nearly everyone I know on the 16th of this month ( with the New Moon ) .
37 It really was about these characters we know on the club scene .
38 Yes I I can remember as a child my grandmother 's erm , family all lived in the east end and I can remember that the you know on the occasions that they used to come down and see us there was always tins of fruit and all sorts of
39 Do n't tell us all you know on the topic — that 's boring !
40 Er I think that advertising has a lot to answer for , er we have this er , you know on cigarette 's there are so many notices and yet we get all this hype in television ads about cars , well cars are basically to get you from A to B and er there should be restrictions in advertising and try and get away from this macho image that the car has , its in , its a necessity of life its not something which alters your ego .
41 They brought me down that day from Edinburgh , bundled me into a transit van with seats but no windows , handcuffed to a big quiet London lad who would n't talk to me at all and did n't even say much to the other two cops in the back of the transit just sat staring ahead and we seemed to drive all night just stopping once at some service station on the Ml , took a while to arrange everything , then they came in with a selection of cans of soft drinks and sandwiches and pasties and pork pies and chocolate and we all sat there munching then they asked me did I need the toilet and I said yes and they opened the door and it was straight over the grass into the gents ' toilets , two cops guarding the door and some men , looked like truckers , standing watching me , waiting for their turn after I 'd had my private visit ; only wanted a pee but I could n't do it even though the big lad was n't actually watching just having him standing there handcuffed to me was enough so they checked the stalls and then took the cuffs off me and I had to leave the door open a crack while I went , then back out and I see the other cop cars Christ a Range Rover and a Senator too I 'm a fucking VIP , then it 's into the van and on with the journey to London where the questioning starts ; they 're concentrating on Sir Rufus 's murder , for now , because they found a card a fucking business card in the woods near the burned cottage ; not mine that would have been too obvious but a card from a guy I know on Jane 's Defence Weekly with some scribbled notes on the back :
42 Erm and we find in the office that we get lots of forms coming in from the Paymaster General asking us to confirm that mister X is employed you know on a on a part time basis .
43 And well I I I know I know on some of my schemes that can have a very dramatic effect .
44 Erm my father was a er a gardener , sort of as a erm hobby and he had allotments and erm we lived very well foodwise you know on what he really produced .
45 I do n't know , I I just think , we 'd be a , lonely you know on us own .
46 You 've got seven or more plants in the States elsewhere er you know on criteria such as erm quality and productivity , cost and so on .
47 Among orthodox men of learning the biblical axiom that species are fixed entities established by God at the Creation gradually became qualified by the doctrine of plenitude , the Great Chain of Being , which declared that God , as artist creator , would necessarily have created all possible creatures in all possible worlds , and that the creatures which we now know on earth are but a fraction of those which exist in the universe .
48 I know on your wall here you , you have a lovely portrait of your grandfather and grandmother .
49 But there were some people you know on a smallish farm , they did n't have an oil engine , then they would have to turn the scrapper by hand .
50 Just above you know on the scruff scruff anyway .
51 And she used to go with the district nurses a lot to er to treat different people specially a long time I remember erm a young man erm h he had er I think it was cerebral palsy he had and er he was so fed up with himself he threw paraffin over himself and er set light you know on the top of the stairs and threw himself down .
52 But they were on this bonus system you know , they were you know on the bonus but they were n't quarry men .
53 They had n't been working on the slate face , they had n't worked any slate , but they were doing all right on the tables , you know on the sawing the slate up for the others .
54 He 'd then possibly forgotten these dreams or fantasies and then when the stimulus of feeling something on the back of his neck happened to him whilst asleep , suddenly the fantasy came back , all as a piece as it were , and it occurred to me that your dream about driving off viaducts might be caused by being asleep , having one of these falling experiences , then relating it to previous thoughts you 'd had , you know on the freeway or something , oh my God , how awful it would be if I , if I drove off that bend below , do you know what I mean ?
55 Well , erm , it 's difficult to make forecasts , particularly with the S E C breathing down one 's neck but I think one can say that the industry conditions , if you were to read the reports of other companies and for us , is pretty much erm , status quo , in other words the domestic excuse me , domestic industry 's doing quite well , the rig , the rig count 's up , the Canadian rig count 's up , international markets remain rather soggy but some of them are qui you know on a , on a selective basis some are quite good .
56 I mean , I know on the plans are not very good , but it does n't show where there is a roof , presumably there 's a roof beside it , just like trellis .
57 Er or are there is there , are there a couple of schools of thought on this particular subject , well essentially what you must do is write something about everything you know , about erm that this particular sort of concept , do n't write everything you know on this particular subject , like you have only got fifteen minutes .
58 you know on the couple of occasions not arranged anything .
59 You may have to say , Well I 've just been talking to the estate agent about this and er you know on a number occasions he 's sent people along to you er may be you did n't realize that was happening .
60 You know on certain passages it 's like we 've completed a questionnaire and then discussed it
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